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Ubuntu 17.04 : miniupnpc vulnerability (USN-3298-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100415

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

USN-3298-1 fixed a vulnerability in MiniUPnP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 17.04.

It was discovered that MiniUPnP incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libminiupnpc10 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3298-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100415

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3298-2.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2017

Updated: 1/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libminiupnpc10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8798

USN: 3298-2